Isn’t he infamous for theorycrafting that it was “mathematically” impossible to kill cthun which has widely been disproven and debunked?
He did famously say that, but I’ve never seen anything to prove him wrong. No one beat C’Thun until he was nerfed.
Uh, no? Blizzard nerfed it. It literally was mathematically impossible to kill.
Cite your sources.
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One of my friends was a player for like 15 years before joining Blizzard, so yes, it’s possible.
Ion’s claim was that it was “mathematically” impossible to kill cthun, not that players were not good enough to meet the dps requirements.
Back in 2006 players were doing 200-300dps. DPS today do over 1000. There are MAGNITUDES of difference between modern players and those of their counterparts 20 years ago (I know I have been playing that long too). Most raiders did NOT use buffs/consumables, world buffs were not as prevalent as they are today (which is a HUGE chunk of damage) and all stat and theorycrafting discussions were done by neckbeards like Ion using guess work and patently wrong information being passed off as fact (as shown by modern data mining).
Heck on Classic launch most “veteran” wow players used to think “ha I can’t wait for these new wow players to wipe countlessly like we did in vanilla, it was a harder game back then”… that has proven demonstrably false most fights are tank and spank or 1 mechanic (compared that to modern mythic modes).
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Ion’s claim that cthun is mathematically impossible is akin to people claiming that it was biologically impossible for a human to run a sub 4 minute mile in the 1950s.
Entire leadership of EQ guild FoH was hired. 
You didn’t cite any sources.
I am sure you have not.
Case and point. You are straight up lying through your teeth lmao.
Again; case and point. No sh*t fights from 20 years ago are easier today.
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I mean, yes there have been some. I’ve known one, but they didn’t become a dev or anything, just a customer support person (answering people’s in-game tickets). It paid no more than your average call center.
I suppose if you’re like a top tier content creator or influencer. Good PR and all. I remember when the creators of Battlefield 1942 mod Desert Combat (of which I knew a few) got hired to help make BF2
That’s the extent of knowing anyone. That and I was sorta high in the mod circles for Ubisoft Rainbow six games and well known, but that was 20 years ago. My talents didn’t get the attention I had expected in 2005. And I had the chance to speak to developers from Ubisoft in Beta forums and they told me modding support was a thing of the past. They wanted complete control over their IPs. Blizz has done similar things to prevent another Defense of the Ancients.
Of course now, with all the avenues for content/streaming and modding live…who knows where I would be. I felt I had a strong creative talent and element to add to the greater community, but I was always overshadowed by people who had the time, money and resources to rapidly adapt to modding/editing software
I dabbled in Left 4 Dead modding and Oblivion, but I quickly felt like the amount of time to publish anything was exceeding the lifespan of games (which can disappear in a few months) and I’d be releasing content to just a tiny core set of classic-like individuals that never garnered the support that WoW classic has. (but for other games)
I got a real job, family and life happened. But I have all my content saved on hardddrives. The thousands of hours put in various editors for Doom, TES, SC, WC maps, Rainbow Six, unreal T, BF modding, LFD2, etc.
It’s a rough life filled with viral sudden success followed by complete abandonment for new projects
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Original C’Thun had lethal bugs, and Classic never released that version of the encounter. That Classic bosses fell over is no indication of whether or not the original was beatable.
The DPS of the time did well below 1/3 of what was the “mathematical max” which was Ions big claim. Ion was claiming even without the bugs it was “mathematically impossible” to which blizzard was saying it was possible y’all just need to get better at the game (which was true).
You want me to cite a source… how about Patch_1.14.3
-C’thun has been restored to his original, most horrific form.
Developers’ note: By popular demand, we’ve implemented the “pre-nerf” version of C’thun in all of his mathematically impossible glory
I would love to work at blizzard but I refuse to work at any company that uses project management to get things done at a certain time. Creativity dies on a time scale
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To get a job at Blizzard you have to play a Paladin, that’s all I know.
Who would want to work for them currently? Even basic functions of the game are failing…
Does the what do the who now?
Ion was the GM of Elitist Jerks and threatened to have his entire guild quit WoW if they didn’t nerf C’thun. So at least 1 player works at Blizzard.
I met one of their Program Manager in real life.
Base on our conversation, she was responsible for solving all the bugs before TWW went live. And she mostly plays Battle Pets. Looks like that was her department.
She’s with a programmer guy with her. I think the programmer reports to her.
They convinced me to go back to WoW on TWW since I was playing Diablo 4 at that time. They gave me some introduction to Panda-remix, Warband and the Anniversary Event. They were also excited to meet me becoz I told them I played WoW for 20 years since Vanilla. I told them I just went into break after DF Season 1 to play Diablo 4. It seems they are not Mythic+ player like me. But it was a good lengthy conversation. I ordered TWW Collector’s Edition that night after the conversation. Oh yeah, we met near Irvine.
Famously Ion Hazzikostas was the Guild Master from Elitist Jerks before he started working for Blizzard.
Back then, Elitist Jerks was THE Guild that did all the math and told everybody what was optimal and how to play the game the right way.
So clearly Ion was hired because of his analytical skills applied to WoW, not just for being a WoW player.
Obviously Blizzard would never hire me, since my greatest skill is being a Big Red Bikini Demon and posting screenshots of my character from flattering angles. I’d give Blizzard nothing but bad PR lol
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I’m VERY marketable…
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Pretty sure Ion wasn’t the GM originally, he was the EJ raid leader (playing shaman, gurgthock). The GM was lordbeef or something like that. He might have become the GM later (played on Malganis in vanilla around them and goon squad).